Re: thunderbird -> kmail
- From: Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 13:48:56 +0300
On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 23:56:44 -0400
Kamaraju Kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks Frank. I finally made the move and am happy with the change. I solved
many of the problems. I am answering my own questions here for the sake of
archives.
Also for sake of archives I would like to defend my Sylpheed-Claws-GTK2
1) Reply to list support
In thunderbird, It is either Reply or Reply to All. Does kmail do a
better job in this regard or is it as lame as thunderbird?
Wow! Kmail's mailing list support is more than what I dreamed of. There is
reply to list feature. Filtering based on mailing lists is a breeze.
Click on Reply will go to list, unless there is a 'Reply-To' set. In
this case the OP will get a copy. Filtering is not *that* easy to set
up, but there are loads of options.
2) Using other editors
I would like to use vim or gvim to compose my emails. Currently
thunderbird does not have any facility to use a custom editor. Does
kmail have this feature?
Just follow http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=302
The basic idea is to use gvim -f %f
Currently kvim is not available in Debian, unstable. So one has to be content
with gvim or use the default composer of kmail.
External editor is very easy to set
3) Thread support
Is it possible to sort the messages by threads instead of
date/sender etc., This is possible in thunderbird. But I could not
figure out how to do this in kmail.
There is thread support. To get thunderbird's behavior I had to do Folder ->
Thread messages. Then click on Date (Order of Arrival). That's it.
View -> Thread View or press Ctrl-T.
4) Spam and Junk mail control
Thunderbird has very good support in terms of spam filtering. It can
even adapt its spam filters as time goes on. How good is kmail in terms
of spam filtering? I am not planning to use spamassassin etc., I am
looking for in-built spam controls.
Kmail as such does not come with any spam filtering support. One has to use
programs such as spamassasin, bogo filter, Annoyance filter etc., The idea is
to use programs which are good at filtering spam rather than making kmail do
it. Close to Unix philosophy I think! After reading the help on Tools ->
Anti-Spam Wizard , I settled onto bogo filter. Cant say anything about its
performance right now. But I hope it is good.
Sylpheed[-Claws[-GTK2]] can use those as well, just don't know how
difficult it is to set them up, never used that. Maybe I'm just lucky,
but I don't get so much spam
Overall, in three words - kmail is great!
Dont know if I will change my opinion and go back to thunderbird in future.
But
for now Kmail rocks.
Sylpheed[-Claws[-GTK2]] is very fast. It is definitely faster than
T-bird, and it has more options/features than I will ever use
Andrei
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